Supply Chain Resilience in Catastrophic Disruptions: Towards Mapping Conceptual Frameworks via Selective Literature Reviews

Author: Abdul Monaiem Kudrotullah
DOI: doi.org/10.70279/bmj-v6-i1-1058
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Any management concept cannot be used effectively by practitioners and researchers if a common agreement on its definition is lacking. For Supply Chain Resilience  – so many definitions are used that there is little consensus on what it means. Last 30 years, the worlds; trade and industrial sector were blessed with unchanging business environment. The practitioners and researchers were well obsessed with cost-cutting efforts putting the concepts of resilience on the side-lines. The ongoing pandemic and few other catastrophic disasters have caused severe supply chain disruption. This has ultimately turned the situation 180 degree. Last 2 years numbers of articles were published on SCRes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the existing literature to understand the concept of Supply Chain Resilience. Various definitions are reviewed, categorized, and synthesized. This paper expands readers understanding of factors that contribute to the developing of firm resilience to supply chain disruptions. In doing so, it operationalizes firm resilience to understand how supply chain disruption orientated firms can develop resilience to supply chain disruptions. The paper initiated a debate regarding approaches to SC-Res. Although it lauded the utility of studying the SC-Res through resilience lenses but ultimately fall back to the predecessors approaches through Risk-management lenses.